The United Nations is currently celebrating its 75th anniversary, but hold the applause. The global body has still failed to address the two key issues that undermine its legitimacy in the United States: anti-Israel bias and hypocrisy on human rights. The U.N.’s key human rights bodies include numerous dictatorships, which use U.N. bodies to deflect attention from their own abuses. All the while, the U.N. obsessively criticizes Israel, the one truly democratic country in the Middle East, with a track record on human rights that is far better than most of the governments voting to condemn it.

These two persistent defects are on full display as the U.N. General Assembly, the U.N. Human Rights Council, the Economic and Social Council, and other U.N. bodies gather virtually this month.